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designers needed to look at the project
and how to best address delays and gate
restraints on the airside. That let them
know how much space was left to build
the physical terminal and headhouse
while still improving the passenger
experience.
"The biggest challenge here is land,"
he said. "We're locked on the north by
the bay and we're locked on the south by
the Grand Central Parkway."
Delta also tasked the team with
working around current operations.
"The biggest challenge we have is
with logistics," Marzullo said. "We're
building on top of existing facilities
and we made the decision going into
this project that we were not going to
degrade the operation. Its what's out
customers expect."
All the planning meetings at the
beginning of the project were with
all stakeholders and figuring out how
to make it all work. They planned for
different needs while handling the
logistics of materials delivery, construction
areas and schedules to address challenges
with ongoing operations.
"Where the new concourse sits today
was actually a parking lot," Durney
said. "That was a great relief valve
for the project because we could take
ownership of that parking lot and start
construction without a huge impact on
ongoing operations."
Durney said stakeholder meetings
were key to the success of the project.

Everyone had to buy in on the different
aspects. LaGuardia is envisioned to be
an integrated airport when completed,
so planners needed to take a wholistic
approach.
"That real estate constraint was
something we just worked and worked
and worked trying to get around," he
said. "There were multiple iterations on
roadways and trying to coordinate with
the ongoing construction at Terminal B,
so we also had the LaGuardia Gateway
Partners at the table for meetings to
coordinate everything from deliveries to
lay down areas and getting the roadways
to all work."
The first concourse completed on
the new terminal is the furthest east,
bordering the water. Durney said they
began there because the parking lot
only impacted Delta's ground stand
operations. It also allowed for micro-

Planners put an emphasis on
locally known brands when
planning new concessions
options in Delta's new terminal
at LaGuardia.
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phasing of the project to work around
aircraft movements and connection to
existing buildings.
"We were moving aircraft around
constantly," he said. "As a design team,
we were doing that analysis and moving
the aircraft around until we could finally
gain access when the concourse was
finished to those gates and then we
could slide what used to be hard stand
operations over into those gates and have
a little bit of breathing room."
The new concourse is connected to
the existing Terminal D. Durney said
the team used a prefabricated structure to
make the connection, which worked well.
Taxi lanes are being reconfigured
as the team moves east-to-west on the
project. As existing concourses are
demolished, the next taxi lanes will
follow in construction.
A New York emphasis is
placed on new concessions at
LaGuardia Airport.
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